![]() ![]() Stanton’s The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. ![]() I liked Guenter Lewy’s America in Vietnam, but it is, for the most part, a politico-diplomatic history, like the others, such as George C. I’ve started banging through Vietnam War books, and have been a surprised at how difficult it is to find a good military history of the war. Any suggestions? Any votes for Dave Palmer's Summons of the Trumpet, which I have ordered but haven't yet read? Weigley's Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany, 1944-45. What I would like to read is the Vietnam equivalent of Rick Atkinson's books about World War II, or perhaps Russell F. I want to understand how tactics changed, how leadership conceived the war at given points, what the patterns and trends were. Most of the histories I've looked at focus more on decisions in Washington and coups in Saigon than on the actual conduct of the war. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1975, but thought it fell short of an overview of the war, even just on the ground. Stanton's The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. I liked Guenter Lewy's America in Vietnam, but it is, for the most part, a politico-diplomatic history, like the others, such as George C. I've started banging through Vietnam War books, and have been a surprised at how difficult it is to find a good military history of the war.
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